This is a good first post. I recognize you, like me, are the kind of person who came on LW with a large specific mental construction that was not formed primarily on this site, and want to communicate your ideas here. You succeeded in doing something I've been thinking about doing,^[1] which is writing a "teaser" style article that sets up your mental world, with the implication that more posts on the "answer" to a problem you identified are to come. I look forward to seeing them!

And also, I'd like to know your lore. I wonder how you came to focus on improving politics/the government as the way to solve society's problems.^[2] You invoke the concept of "focus on solving the core and not the symptoms" within politics; have you done such an analysis on the world's problems, and concluded politics is the core?^[3] 

(I know you didn't imply that within this post, but I saw your comment on the pre-apocalypse post. Yes, politics is not what most of us are thinking about when we hear pre-apocalypse. You likely got downvoted because, though it's fair that LWers may be "ignoring" politics compared to the average person, you didn't explain why you see politics as a core before talking about how to fix it.)
 

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   After multiple attempts at writing a smaller post I tried throwing my hands up and just braindumping what came to mind. Currently partway through a big post that has ended up mentioning basically all my arguments/post ideas (but thinking of quitting that too and just posting a portion of it first). Can't resist noting how there's more yap to come after each non-elaborated mention (it's crazy out here*), you did that far more simply. Curious how easy it was for you to write this. 

   *to be having all these ideas amirite!

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   And also how you found LW/how well you think this community aligns with the discussions you want to have. Why here?

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   Personally trying to go even core-r (people reading this lmk if there's an official LW term for this concept) and focus on psychology/neuroscience; how our brains work causes all our behavior which causes all our problems after all! I'm trying to learn about the entire world and haven't focused much on politics yet.

I edited what happens when you click new post, I think it was WYSIWYG... you mean mods are able to access it for me?

I am so sad bro. Just discovered I lost a large chunk of my effortpost😭😭😭

I really should have worked on google docs, but I liked the markdown and low friction footnote adding :(

https://www.lesswrong.com/w/guide-to-the-lesswrong-editor When it says "recovering lost work (to do)" ... are we implying there is a way that just hasn't been written about yet, or that this feature hasn't yet been implemented? (Already looked in version history, found 2 empty versions and my current version)